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Mostly talking about movies, video games, and gay stuff (such as my gay husband and gay dog).
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With my David review live, my post about the Oscar-eligible animated features now has links for all 35 movies. Extremely good batch this year!

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The Oscar-eligible Animated Features are here!
The Academy has announced the list of this year's Oscar-eligible animated features, which is always a very exciting day for me. This year, t...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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David, coming to theaters later this month, feels like a spiritual successor to The Prince of Egypt: a rousing Biblical adventure with beautiful animation, catchy songs, and a strong emphasis on faith. My review:

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Review: David (of Goliath-killing fame) is an enjoyable Disney-esque musical adventure
Our year full of faith-based movies is coming to an end with one of the most ambitious of all of them, Angel Studios' David , which takes on...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Lots of animation on the way in December, including JUJUTSU KAISEN, SpongeBob, David (of Goliath-killing fame), and some great documentaries. Check out my preview here:

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December Animation Preview: JJK, SpongeBob, and David lead the holiday charge!
It's hard to believe this year is already coming to an end, and even harder to believe how absolutely packed December is with animated relea...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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#LastFourWatched
November 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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A Chuck E. Cheese Christmas is a serviceable special, with enough good jokes to make it worth a watch. It's available to watch on YouTube! My review:

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Review: A Chuck E. Cheese Christmas brings a few laughs to the holiday season
Now that Thanksgiving is over here in the States, it is officially Christmas season, and I have a slew of Christmas movies and specials to r...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Made it to Act III in Clair Obscur
November 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Zootopia 2 is a phenomenal sequel that is as fun, exciting, and thematically relevant as its predecessor. Love the new characters, the bigger world, and the new banger from Gazelle. My review:

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Review: Zootopia 2 is a fang-tastic squeak-quel (and is full of such animal puns)
Disney Animation has had a rough few years, and hasn't had an actually good movie since Encanto . After last year's botched, lifeless Moana ...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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My ranking of this year's Oscar-eligible animated features. Good year!
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I hope I'm the only person who ever suffers through Dream On / Dream Off, the worst "movie" (hour of AI slop) I've ever seen. It doesn't deserve to be called animation, or a movie, or to ever be spoken about at all. My review of this garbage:

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Review: Dream On / Dream Off is soulless AI slop, not even worthy of being called a movie
What a difference a day makes... Yesterday, I was on here singing the praises of Dalibor Barić's truly singular All Operators are Currently ...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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All Operators are Currently Unavailable is the strangest of the Oscar-eligible animated features, burying its protagonist in layers of unreality to the delight and consternation of the viewer. A thrill! My review:

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Review: All Operators are Currently Unavailable might break your brain (in the best way possible)
I would say that most of the time, when I sit down to write a review, I have a pretty decent idea of what I'm going to write. When I started...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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The West is as wild as ever in Bill Plympton's latest, the rough-and-tumble musical Slide, which opens in NYC next week for its Oscar-qualifying run. My review:

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Review: Bill Plympton makes the west extra wild in free-wheeling Slide
Yes, there's a cowboy and a saloon and lots of gunslingin' in Bill Plympton's latest feature, Slide , but it is anything but your typical we...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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The Academy has announced this year's Oscar-eligible animated features. I've seen 31/35, and I'll be 34/35 after Tuesday. Check out the list, my thoughts, and links to my reviews:

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The Oscar-eligible Animated Features are here!
The Academy has announced the list of this year's Oscar-eligible animated features, which is always a very exciting day for me. This year, t...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Check out my thoughts on some of the animated shorts that are in the thick of the awards conversation, like Éiru, Cardboard, Versa, and Wednesdays with Gramps:

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Awards Season Shorts Sampler
Last night, I was fortunate enough to attend a showcase of some of the year's animated shorts that are in the thick of the awards season whi...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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The European Film Awards nominations were announced, and all five animated nominees are also up for the top prize! Here's a little celebration post, with links to my reviews of all five:

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European Film Award nominations announcement
Today, the nominations for the European Film Awards were announced, with lots of mentions for buzzy movies like It Was Just an Accident and ...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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A rainy day in LA means movies 🤓
November 16, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Arco is a Ghibli-esque bit of solar-punk sweetness, painting a colorful vision of a hopeful future. My review of Neon's awards hopeful:

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Review: Arco paints a colorful vision of a hopeful future
It rarely rains in LA, but we're in the midst of a very rainy weekend, which made it the perfect day to venture out to the movies to catch A...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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In Your Dreams, hitting Netflix tomorrow, is a lively, emotional adventure that really gets what it's like to be a kid (and a sibling). It made me laugh a lot, and cry almost as much. My review:

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Review: In Your Dreams is anything but a snooze-fest
When you're a kid, you have so little control over your life. The world is so big, so unknown and unknowable, and you're just being ferried ...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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More than 500 animators came together to breathe new life into Disney's not-so-classic Chicken Little. The results are wild, silly, and pretty fun. My review of Chicken Little: Rehatched!

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Review: Chicken Litte: ReHatched! gives new, zany life to a Disney not-so-classic
A sort of sub-genre of animated films I haven't had the chance to cover here is the community-made remake. There are a decent number of thes...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Virgin Punk: Clockwork Girl is packed with blood, boobs, and BOOMS. If it ends here, so be it, but I certainly hope we get to spend more time in this world in the future. My review:

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Review: Virgin Punk: Clockwork Girl's incredible world will leave you wanting more
When I wrote about Virgin Punk: Clockwork Girl in my November Animation Preview , I noted that I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to be ...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias
August 12, 2023 at 6:04 PM
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The Sneetches, Netflix's new Seuss adaptation, is a delightful little movie, with a great message of kindness and a soundtrack full of bops. I loved it! My review:

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Review: The Sneetches delivers a good message (and great songs) into a fun little package
Sometimes, you gotta sneak away from your racist family so you can have dinner with your friend's equally racist family. So it goes in The S...
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November 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Grand Prix of Europe is a wreck. And not the kind you can't look away from. You will very much want to look away from this limp mess. My review:

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Review: Grand Prix of Europe is a car crash you'll be desperate to look away from
I'm trying to remember the last time I disliked a movie's protagonist as much as I dislike Edda, the gender-bending mouse at the heart of Gr...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM